Elias Thorne is a man who finds things that want to stay lost. But when he is hired to locate the heir to the Blackwood estate in the secluded village of Oakhaven, he finds a town trapped in a waking nightmare. The residents speak in riddles, the shadows in the woods move against the wind, and a rhythmic thumping echoes from the earth every midnight. As Elias digs deeper, he realizes the “Hemlock” isn’t just a plant—it’s a gateway. To find the girl, he must solve a century-old disappearance, but the deeper he goes, the more the forest begins to mimic his own voice. In Oakhaven, the trees don’t just have ears; they have memories.
